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Those of you who have electric fences and Humming Birds.Paint your insulators some color un wanting to humming bird's.Found a skeleton with it's feet still curled around the wire.My insulators are true yellow, I guess the nail in the center represented the nectar hole.with it sitting on the wire that was all it took and my fence charger is one of the mildest I have ever witnessed :'(doak

Can you tell me how they catch the humming bird and kill it to begin with.I am sure the bird just sits there and lets the mantis start gnawing.You watch them when they are feeding from a feeder. They evidently know their enemies,you can tell by the way they stay away from yellow jackets and other stingers.Any thing that has a snout and is big enough can land on a humming bird while in flight and puncturethe bird and start sucking.Again, my question is, how does the Mantis catch the bird in the first place.doak

The mantis arms are amazingly strong and have spikes on em so a big one could hold on. I don't think they let go once they get something. The big mantis probably weigh the same or more than a hummer, birds have very light bones. I used to hatch out mantis inthe spring then save a few as pets, watching how they eat, grow, shed, then eat grow shed..till they get wings. The only ones that would make it after fall were the females cause eventually they would mate and we all know what happens then! :evil:Jody